My guilty pleasures of pop culture aren’t just devoted to bad movies and television series. I very often find myself defending musicians, comedians, movie stars and self-proclaimed auteurs.
Here are just a hand full…
Pat Boone
LIKE: I’m a sucker for 50s revisionist Americana.
HATE: His crazy right-wing politics and religious bull-crap.
Mickey Rooney
LIKE: He starred in Pete’s Dragon and Silent Night, Deadly Night 5.
HATE: His arsenal of racist on-screen characters.
Eli Roth
LIKE: He’s a horror geek that knows his stuff, and perfectly cast in Inglorious Bastards.
HATE: He talks up his movies as if they’re groundbreaking, let alone good.
Roman Polanski
Woody Allen
Lars von Trier
LIKE: Three of the greatest still-living filmmakers still around.
HATE: Hearing about their bizarre personal lives & beliefs.
LIKE: Three of the greatest still-living filmmakers still around.
HATE: Hearing about their bizarre personal lives & beliefs.
Tom CruiseArnold Schwarzenegger
Mel Gibson
LIKE: Three of the greatest still-living movie-stars.
HATE: Hearing about their bizarre personal lives & beliefs.
LIKE: Three of the greatest still-living movie-stars.
HATE: Hearing about their bizarre personal lives & beliefs.
Gary Busey
LIKE: He’s one crazy motherf**ker.
HATE: He may possibly be under my bed holding a butcher knife. No seriously, check for me.
Larry the Cable Guy
LIKE: The best guilty-pleasure low-brow comedian since Benny Hill.
HATE: The most disturbing fabricated comedian (including his accent) since Bobcat Goldthwait.
Leonardo DiCaprio
LIKE: The dude has presence and has turned in some good performances.
HATE: All his roles make me wonder if the movie would have been better with another actor.
Justin Bieber
LIKE: A great success story, with an obvious sense of humor (check out his Funny or Die vids).
HATE: He’s no Greyson Chance.
